"The end of contraband ... is the end of Argentine history." - Ricardo Piglia

What is the role of the black market, broadly defined, in literature from theUnited States and Latin America? How is the notion of a contraband economyimportant for rethinking political narrative? What is the function of an othermarket? How can smuggling be theorized not only as a motif in literary texts,but also as a figure for the act of writing in the Americas? Please send1-page abstracts to David Kelman, dkelman_at_learnlink.emory.edu, by 17 March 2006.